Sadness
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- Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
- She gets sad when he's away.
- Appearing sorrowful.
- The puppy had a sad little face.
- Causing sorrow; lamentable.
- It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
- The Great Gaels of Ireland God truly made mad.
- For, all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad. ―G.K. Chesterton
- Poor in quality, bad.
- That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
- Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
- I can't believe you use drugs, you're so sad!
Sadness is an emotion characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, and helplessness. When sad, people often become quiet, less energetic, and withdrawn. Sadness is considered to be the opposite of happiness, and is similar to the emotions of sorrow, grief, misery, and melancholy. The philosopher Baruch Spinoza defined sadness as the “transfer of a person from a large perfection to a smaller one.”
Sadness can be viewed as a temporary lowering of mood (feeling blue), whereas clinical depression is characterized by a persistent and intense lowered mood, as well as disruption to one's ability to function in day to day matters.
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